Usual Sense Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

e idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual… — Albert Einstein
"I am not a Muslim in the usual sense, though I hope I am a "Muslim" as "one surrendered to God," but I believe that… — William Montgomery Watt
I think one should forgive and remember .... If you forgive and forget in the usual sense, you're just driving what you remember into the… — Faith Baldwin
I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning… — Jacques Rivette
So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are… — William Makepeace Thackeray
I am not conscious of working especially hard, or of 'working' at all. Writing and teaching have always been, for me, so richly rewarding that… — Joyce Carol Oates
A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them… — Margaret Atwood
A novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. It can be called moral when it shakes us out of our stupor… — Azar Nafisi
Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple. — Stephen Jay Gould

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